Hospital and respondent characteristics
| No. (%) | |
| Hospital classification (n=103) | |
| Administrative sector | |
| Public/government | 34 (33) |
| Private | 69 (67) |
| Region* | |
| City | 81 (79) |
| Provincial | 17 (16) |
| District | 5 (5) |
| Level† | |
| Level I | 6 (6) |
| Level II | 28 (27) |
| Level III | 56 (54) |
| Level IV | 10 (10) |
| Unknown/unclassified | 3 (3) |
| Respondent characteristics (n=83) | |
| Professional role | |
| Consultant | 81 (98) |
| Registrar/fellow | 2 (2) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 21 (25) |
| Female | 62 (75) |
| Years working in NICU‡ | |
| 1–5 years | 12 (15) |
| 6–10 years | 8 (10) |
| 11–15 years | 14 (17) |
| 16–20 years | 27 (33) |
| >20 years | 20 (24) |
| Religious belief | |
| Yes | 83 (100) |
| Atheist/agnostic | 0 |
| Religious denomination§ | |
| Christianity – Catholic | 68 (82) |
| Christianity – Evangelical | 6 (7) |
| Christianity – Born Again Christians | 6 (7) |
| Christianity – Baptist | 2 (2) |
| Prefer not to say | 1 (1) |
| Importance of religion§ | |
| Most important | 31 (37) |
| Very important | 50 (60) |
| Fairly important | 2 (2) |
| Not important | 0 |
*Hospitals in the Philippines fall under different regional administrative units; city hospitals (managed by city governments), ‘district’ and ‘provincial’ hospitals (both managed by the provincial government and the latter providing tertiary care to a greater catchment area).23
†Hospitals are classified into four different levels according to the types of facilities available. Level 1 and 2 hospitals are well distributed across the entire country, while higher level hospitals are concentrated in fewer regions with greater population density.33
‡Numbers sum up to 81 as two respondents did not answer this question.
§For respondents who indicated that they had a religion. Refers to importance of religion in respondents’ lives.
NICU, neonatal intensive care unit.